How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind Regan Penaluna “Not to be confused with the male gaze, which objectifies women’s bodies, the male glance does the opposite to women’s creative work: it barely gives it a second look. Those under its spell…
What I read: August 2026
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean Susan Casey “Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.” For most of…
What I read: July 2026
July was tough. My reading didn’t really suffer, but I didn’t have the mental space to think through reviews. This month is also unique because every book came from the library. I’m so glad to have access to this precious public resource. Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child “Then he noticed that the rain forest,…
4 books that changed my life
Many readers use books to mark significant points in their lives: the first book they read, the first time they experienced the genre they consider their favorite, the book that broke (or healed) their heart. Sometimes they’re books everyone has read, and sometimes they’re so obscure it’s a miracle they made it to a shelf….
What I read: June 2026
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in SocietyEleanor Janega “When we ignore history like this and assume that women have always been treated in one particular way that we are only now beginning to overcome, we accept that our society has always been this way and indeed should be this way.”…